A few days ago, when I was rooting around in some really old files full of things I'd done many years ago, I came across some of my old tapa designs. The tapa design style is native to the Polynesian islands, and typically is made up of geometrical shapes which are painted or printed on to bark cloth. The style sometimes includes animal motifs but these are mostly turtles and fish, which is natural enough seeing that the designs come from Polynesia.
An authentic Samoan tapa cloth
Some time ago I did a lot of tapa inspired designs, including some non-traditional subjects like horses and a crocodile, and I thought the croc might be good as a freebie. It's quite a large design – for the 5 x 7 hoop (130 x 180 mm) and the animal itself is 7 inches (180 mm) long. The body and tail are appliqueed on, so you can use exotic fabric if you like, just to emphasize his Polynesian ancestry
An inauthentic tapa crocodile!
If you want to try him out, the design file (in .pes v.6) is here, and the worksheet is here
Merci Mia
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Wow! Mia! He is cool! I like him … already thinking of using it on my project :o)
Thank you very much!
Hi Mia, I love your tapa crocodile!Thank you so much for sharing him with us. You have really captured the tapa style in the shapes that you used in digitizing this awesome crocodile!
I really like the blend of the styles!
Thank you!! Love the colors and the details. Great job! (Again)